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The coffee table is a substantial piece of furniture taking up a lot of valuable real estate in your living room. Along with looking good, why not also make it useful not just as a surface to place your things on, but as a functional storage piece to place your things in? These six stylish storage coffee tables can be made at home and customized to fit your home's look.

This area of Leslie's backyard where her grill lived was lacking. But not wanting to pay exorbitant custom kitchen cost, she found functional and stylish workarounds to create that custom look— with a lower price tag.

Does your pot frequently runneth over? If you're part of the regularly-sets-off-the-smoke-alarm-while-cooking-dinner club, chance are your stove burners are in desperate need of attention. Whether it's your fault, or the previous tenants', the burners aren't going to clean themselves.

Fourteen years ago, a run of X-Men comics took Marvel’s famous mutants out of superhero costumes, put them in rockstar leather uniforms and detoured away from years of dead-end storylines. The X-Men got much cooler. This week, we get to see what happens when the X-Men’s cool runs out.

The two channels will act as a view-on-demand visual encyclopedia, offering a unique perspective on the most significant moments of modern history. Available for all to explore, the channels will also be powerful educational tools and a source of inspiration for history enthusiasts and documentary filmmakers.

Thinking about getting a Kura bed? Think about all the possibilities. Whether in the low position, shown above, or as a lofted bed, this is one IKEA product that parents have hacked, tweaked and customized to their hearts' content. Check out all these ideas for giving the Kura a new look or making it work better in our space.

If you find the constant hum of a window AC unit even more annoying than the heat in the summer, maybe it’s time to consider an unorthodox alternative like a giant heatsink dining table that promises to cool a room to a pleasant 71 degrees Fahrenheit.

I have three kids. They don’t fucking listen. One day, God as my witness, they will listen. They will stop, turn around, not talk for five seconds, and say to me, “Wow, I never thought of it that way before. Thanks, Dad!” I swear it will happen. I will destroy entire countries if I have to make it so. But until then, every last bit of handy, fatherly wisdom I have to impart on these people goes right down a fucking black hole. It’s nothing but CAN I HAVE A TWIZZLER?! in response to anything I say.

ESCAPE!, a set of color changing silicone lid lifters made in the shape of a crab claw and an octopus tentacle that’s trying to escape the pot and is a novel way to prevent boil-overs when cooking. The lid is available for purchase at Fred & Friends or via Amazon

Slip Fred’s color-changing silicone octopus tentacle or crab claw on top of your stock pot and you’ll never have dreaded boil-over again. They’ll hold up your lid just so and evoke an exciting scenario of “escape from the briny deep!” ESCAPE! lid lifters are molded from heat-sensitive, color-changing silicone. We’ve packed one octopus and one crab in each box.

The Cubrick is an elaborate cabinet designed by The Yard Sale Project in London that opens a series of small cupboards in graceful unison. The cabinet comes in a variety of sizes, colors, and finishes all built around the same unique opening design. The Yard Sale Project has released a video that demonstrates the interesting motion of the cabinet that really highlights its beauty.

A self-described member of the 1 percent shocked the Reddit community on Wednesday with an explanation of why he was voting for the presidential candidate who has made higher taxes for the wealthy a tenet of his campaign.

In a wildly popular Reddit post, a user named thunderd11 announced: "I'm a member of the 1% and I'm voting for Bernie Sanders."

The user who described himself as a "white male in my 30s" said that he grew up "fairly poor," and then started a successful consulting firm after nearly a decade in the military, earning him "membership in the 1% by pretty much any definition of the phrase."

He argued that Sanders' plan to return to the 90 percent top income tax rates of the early 1950s was the right way to address income inequality.

"After all the write offs, business expenses, mortgage interest deductions etc... My Taxable Income is less than half of my Gross Income," the 1 percenter noted. "Add in my capital gains earnings at their super low tax rate even though my gross income is well over the top tax bracket my effective tax rate is usually around 17-18% every year and could actually be quite a bit lower if I put actual effort into (legal) tax avoidance strategies."

Years from now, we will remember the mid-2010s as the era of the pool float. These things are all over the blogosphere, and even Taylor Swift has gotten in on the trend. If you wish to re-live your childhood on a giant inflatable of your own, look no further than this roundup of 12 of the best pool floats out there.

There’s no better way to top off a meal of Carolina-style barbecue than plunging your face into a big, dripping scoop of ice cream in a fresh, warm waffle cone. America knows this pleasure thanks to Abe Doumar who unveiled the first waffle cone machine at the 1904 World’s Fair. And thanks to Doumar’s family, you can still eat a cone from the original machine.

Live with a mate? Thinking about moving in with your better half? Know that in life and in love, arguments are inevitable. In fact we'd bet that these six types of arguments will almost certainly take place with just about any couple sharing a space together. Here's how to cool your jets and move on...

Mexrissey is a wonderful tribute band that performs songs by Morrissey and The Smiths in Spanish with an original twist of mariachi. Fronted by DJ Camilo Lava and bandleader Sergio Mendoza, the band blends together the distinctive sound of the artist with the traditional music of Mexico.

Delving into Mexico’s unlikely obsession for all-things-Morrissey, Mexico City-based DJ and producer Camilo Lara, founder of the electronic music project Mexican Institute of Sound (M.I.S.), together with bandleader Sergio Mendoza (Orkesta Mendoza/Calexico) has assembled a super-group of Mexico’s leading contemporary musicians, paying homage to the iconic Smiths frontman. Through M.I.S., Lara has developed a reputation for blending traditional music with more modern sounds and with this project he explores the relationship between Mexico and Morrissey, reinventing his work with brass, accordion and other Mexican elements.

The variety of flavors and experiences you can have with it is unknown to a lot of people still. There are these gins out there now that don’t just taste like juniper, that they can be floral, they can be fruity, they can be spicy, they can be dark and weighty tasting or they can be light and ethereal tasting.

Having a home that's generally in order pretty consistently— not to be confused with "perfect all the time"— is in large part a matter of habit. One such habit which has tremendous impact is one I call "completing the cycle." Here's how you can practice it at home.

Welp, we have a new favorite show. At San Diego Comic-Con, we got to watch the entire pilot of Syfy’s The Expanse, based on the books by James S. A. Corey—and we were blown away. This is a show that digs into the politics of our spacefaring future, but knows it’s the characters that make science fiction shine.

I can't get enough of vintage interiors, especially vintage kitchens. And although these spaces may look a little strange to us — after all, that's what makes them so interesting — if you look closely enough, you might find a few ideas that are worth stealing for your own space.